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UX Design Is the New Web Design: How to Shift Your Career

January 2, 2017 by Spyre Studios

ux design

Advancing technology and the digital revolution are rapidly changing the career landscape for designers. Where web design once reigned as the career of choice for digitally-minded visual designers, that job has recently been dethroned by a new supreme leader of the design realm: UX designer. As more people do business digitally – not just on computers, […]

Filed Under: UX Tagged With: user experience, ux design

Convergence and Divergence: How UXAs and Designers Work Together as Frenemies to Build Beautiful Things

November 21, 2016 by Spyre Studios

If you work day in and day out in close proximity to a UX designer and a UI designer, you know what I’m talking about when I say that there is always a creative tension between the two. Whereas both resources share a common understanding that their job is to design for emotion, by creating […]

Filed Under: UX Tagged With: infographics, ui, ux

Google Accelerated Mobile Pages: Browse Fast and Easily

August 25, 2016 by Spyre Studios

Google Accelerated Mobile Pages

“80% of Internet users own a smartphone,” according to study done by David Chaffey, CEO and co-founder of Smart Insights. With the large percentage of users using their smartphones to search for data every day, it’s not surprising that Google takes a step further to enrich user experience for mobile users. Last February of this year, […]

Filed Under: UX Tagged With: Google Accelerated Mobile Pages

Use these 9 websites as a UI/UX Benchmark

March 9, 2016 by Spyre Studios

UI ux benchmark

Understanding User Interface Design (UI) and User Experience Design (UX) is far more efficiently accomplished by exposure rather than by explanation. You can read a thousand pages about these methods and not “get it” until surfing through a few sites that exemplify the goal. The internet relies on human experience, capitalizing on ease of use […]

Filed Under: Showcase, UX Tagged With: ui design, ux design

5 UI Animation Trends That Will Shape UX in 2016

January 28, 2016 by Veronika

UI Animation Trends in 2016

The UI creates a virtual bridge between the user and the software. A well-designed user interface should allow intuitive interaction and provide ease of access to the application’s complete functionality. UI Development Throughout The Years In the past few decades, the graphical user interface has changed tremendously. It started out as a simplified bitmapped screen […]

Filed Under: UX Tagged With: ui, ui design, user interface, ux

How To Improve User Experience With Heatmap Testing

September 23, 2015 by Veronika

Heatmap testing for better UX

Getting traffic to a website is one thing, but managing to allocate it to specific pages and offers is a totally different story. While search engine optimization might be considered as more technically oriented, the art of making users watch and click on specific objects replies more on pure psychology. It implicates user experiencce studies […]

Filed Under: UX Tagged With: heatmap, ux

Striking a Balance: Features vs. Functionality

September 3, 2015 by Spyre Studios

It’s a tale that’s common in design circles—you’ve designed a beautiful website with lots of features. You and your client are quite pleased with the finished product, until that dreadful day when the customer feedback starts pouring in. In your haste to build something aesthetically pleasing and packed with features, you neglected to take the […]

Filed Under: Matrix, UX Tagged With: functionality, Usability, ux

How To Design Readable Comment Threads

June 25, 2015 by Jake Rocheleau

Comment sections are built for user interaction. Websites are mostly about consumption and comments are a way for readers to share their thoughts with others. But not all comments are created equal, and certain techniques are more favorable than others. In this post I’d like to cover some helpful tips for building readable comment threads. […]

Filed Under: UX Tagged With: tips, trends, ui design, web design

Stylish Examples of Custom Scrolling Effects in Web Design

April 28, 2015 by Jake Rocheleau

Many dynamic websites add custom scrolling effects into the layout. These effects can be created using JavaScript which manipulates the page’s default scroll behavior. At times this can be annoying – but when used appropriately custom scrolling can improve a website’s usability. Most scrolling effects originate from parallax websites using custom plugins. These plugins are […]

Filed Under: UX Tagged With: parallax, scrolling, trends, web design

Walking the SEO and Web Design Tightrope: How to Balance UX and Site Crawlability?

March 30, 2015 by Christopher Jan Benitez

It’s no longer enough to be a web designer in this day and age. Thanks (or no thanks) to website builders that allow startups and business owners without any design experience to create a website by just dragging and dropping elements unto a page on their site,  the need for a professional designer may not be as […]

Filed Under: Design, UX Tagged With: search engine optimization, web design

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